Caribbean & Latin American Literature

Unter den Passagieren des Dampfers von New York nach Buenos Aires befindet sich neben dem weltberühmten Schachweltmeister Mirko Czentovic auch der mysteriöse Dr. B. Als der Champion von einigen schachbegeisterten Mitreisenden zu einem Spiel herausgefordert wird, kommt es zu einem denkwürdigen Duell zwischen dem Weltmeister und dem geheimnisvollen Fremden. Die Schachnovelle gehört zu den letzten Texten, die Stefan Zweig kurz vor seinem Freitod im brasilianischen Exil schrieb. Sie stellt die Auseinandersetzung des österreichisch-jüdischen Autors mit dem Gestapo-Terror in seiner Heimat sowie den Beschwerlichkeiten seines Exil-Lebens dar.

Das Waisenmädchen Pearl ist bettelarm, aber sie ist mutig und klug. Und entschlossen, bei ihrer Jagd nach einer legendären Perle über jede Grenze zu gehen.Jamaica in den 1730er Jahren. In Port Royal wächst das Waisenkind Pearl unter Bettlern, Sklaven und Tagelöhnern zu einer bildschönen jungen Frau heran. Um ihre Herkunft rankt sich ein sagenhaftes Gerücht: sie soll die Tochter der berühmten Piratin Anne Bonny sein. Ihr größter Traum ist es, in die irische Heimat ihrer Mutter zurückzukehren. Als ihr zu Ohren kommt, dass ein spanischer Konvoy mit einem unermesslichen Schatz an Bord unterwegs ist, ist sie bereit, alles zu wagen, und findet sich unversehens zwischen den Fronten wieder. Denn auch die Engländer machen Jagd auf die größte Perle der Welt. Pearl ist gezwungen, für ihren Traum ausgerechnet das Leben des Mannes in Gefahr zu bringen, der sie zutiefst fasziniert: der junge Ire Val, der aufgrund einer tragischen Verstrickung in der britischen Armee dienen muss ...

"Full of heart and wisdom, Daughters of Latin America sheds a brilliant light on Latine and Caribbean women writers across time, space, languages, and genres."-World Literature TodaySpanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world-from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña-gathered in one magnificent volume. Daughters of Latin America collects the intergenerational literary voices of Latine women across time and space, capturing the power, strength, and creativity of these visionary writers, leaders, scholars, and activists-including 24 Indigenous voices. Several authors featured are translated into English for the first time. Grammy, National Book Award, Cervantes, and Pulitzer Prize winners as well as a Nobel Laureate and the next generation of literary voices are among the stars of this essential collection, women whose work inspires and transforms us. An eclectic and inclusive time capsule spanning centuries, genres, and geographical and linguistic diversity, Daughters of Latin America is divided into 13 sections representing the 13 holy moons, each cycle honoring a different theme. Within its pages are poems from U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón; lyric essays from New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Guggenheim Fellow Maryse Condé; rousing speeches from U.S. Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, and Lencan Indigenous land and water protector Berta Caceres; and a transcendent Mazatec chant from shaman and poet María Sabina testifying to the power of language as a cure, which opens the book. More than a collection of writings, Daughters of Latin America is a resurrection of ancestral literary inheritance as well as a celebration of the rising voices encouraged and nurtured by those who came before them. In addition to those mentioned above, contributors include Elizabeth Acevedo, Julia Alvarez, Albalucia Angel, Marie Arana, Ruth Behar, Gioconda Belli, Miluska Benavides, Carmen Bouollosa, Giannina Braschi, Norma Cantú, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Angie Cruz, Edwidge Danticat, Julia de Burgos, Lila Downs, Laura Esquivel, Conceição Evaristo, Mayra Santos Febres, Sara Gallardo, Cristina Rivera Garza, Reyna Grande, Sonia Guiñasaca, Georgina Herrera, María Hinojosa, Claudia Salazar Jimenez, Jamaica Kincaid, María Clara Sharupi Jua, Amada Libertad, Josefina López, Gabriela Mistral, Celeste Mohammed, Cherrié Moraga, Angela Morales, Nancy Morejón, Anaïs Nin, Achy Obejas, Alejandra Pizarnik, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Elena Poniatowska, Laura Restrepo, Ivelisse Rodriguez, Mikeas Sánchez, Esmeralda Santiago, Rita Laura Segato, Ana María Shua, Natalia Toledo, Julia Wong, Elisabet Velasquez, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Helena María Viramontes, and many more.

Mapping the fault lines between mother and child (humanity's first and supposedly strongest bond), and with a poet's homeric vision of her native Trinidad, Camille U. Adams weaves the Caribbean island's history of colonial violence with her own family's legacy of abandonment.For generations, the women of Camille U. Adams' family have left their daughters. Some follow the siren call of rum, the centuries-old vice which alighted on Trinidad's shores from European ships. Others flee the behind-closed-doors beatings of husbands, fathers, and brothers, rushing into any arms that offer refuge. Some simply disappear, their passage marked by unkept promises and open wounds.As a young girl, Adams finds solace in Trinidad's whispering fever grass, sweet ixora flowers, and the cradling branches of the rose mango tree-all of their roots connecting her to the land's long memory. But where flora gives way to the rank pavement of Covigne Road, gunshots echo and men amass in the doorways of derelict garages, their mouths and hands promising violation. Home offers no safety: just an explosive father, cowed sisters, and a mother whose only reprieve is control. Cloying, suffocating, the maternal embrace threatens to blot out all else. Is it better to be choked, or not to be held at all?Tormented by her mother's presence and haunted by her absence, Camille U. Adams' dazzling debut is a breathtaking account of survival and self-determination, reimagining the meaning of escape, its cost, and what comes after.

*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Translation Prize*<BR>*Finalist for the National Translation Award*<BR>*Honorable Mention for the Society of Authors TA (Translators Association) First Translation Prize*<BR>*Honorable Mention for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize*<BR> <BR>“These days, when an American president has decreed that ‘there are only two genders: male and female’ . . . an undaunted, lyrical voice from a southern corner of the hemisphere offers a model of resistance.” —The New Yorker<BR> <BR>“Intoxicating . . . Sexy, political and deeply humane . . . We all owe Penguin Classics a round of shots for A Last Supper of Queer Apostles.” —The Washington Post<BR> <BR>A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America's queer counterculture who celebrated “melodrama, kitsch, extravagance, and vulgarity of all kinds” (Garth Greenwell) in playful, performative, linguistically inventive essays, now in English for the first time<BR> <BR>A Penguin Classic<BR><BR>“I speak from my difference,” wrote Pedro Lemebel, an openly queer writer and artist living through Chile’s AIDS epidemic and the collapse of the Pinochet dictatorship. In brilliantly innovative essays—known as crónicas—that combine memoir, reportage, fiction, history, and poetry, he brought visibility and dignity to sexual minorities, the poor, and the powerless. Touching on everything from Che Guevara to Elizabeth Taylor, from the aftermath of authoritarian rule to the daily lives of Chile’s locas—a slur for trans women and effeminate gay men that he boldly reclaims—his writing infuses political urgency with playfulness, realism with absurdism, and resistance with camp, and his AIDS crónicas immortalize a generation of Chileans doubly “disappeared” by casting each loca, as she falls sick, in the starring role of her own private tragedy. This volume brings together the best of his work, introducing readers of English to the subversive genius of a literary activist and queer icon whose acrobatic explorations of the Santiago demimonde reverberate around the world.<BR><BR>For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Cervantes y la crítica (1878) es un ensayo filológico-histórico. Su autor, Amenodoro Urdaneta quiere ser exhaustivo en lo que respecta a la percepción del Quijote frente a la crítica de su tiempo. En especial entre aquellos que se empeñaron en restarle méritos o encontrarle defectos. Ello sirvió de pretexto a Urdaneta para mostrar su admiración por la obra y explayarse en sus descripciones analíticas, filosóficas o morales acerca de ella.El libro está estructurado en tres partes fundamentales, organizadas por capítulos. Urdaneta realiza un repaso general sobre la importancia del libro; revisa la caballería andante y el espíritu de las Cruzadas con bastante rigor; realiza puntualizaciones pertinentes acerca del lenguaje literario del siglo XVI, e incluso llega a arremeter contra la tradición árabo-persa, pero también contra Shakespeare y Bocaccio.Cervantes y la crítica es un ensayo exhaustivo de la obra cervantina, aunque a veces caiga en opiniones y reflexiones grandilocuentes y exageraciones, que le permiten desplegar sus dotes de crítico literario y filólogo inteligente.Así nos presenta Amenodoro Urdaneta Cervantes y la crítica: <BR>Después de muchos años consagrados al estudio del Quijote y al examen de la crítica en él ensayada, he adquirido la convicción de poder disipar las sombras extrañas que velan todavía la faz de esa inmortal novela, y que la dañan, a semejanza de los mal confeccionados afeites que el artificio estampa en el rostro de la beldad.Ese libro admirable que, poniendo de relieve y caricaturando graciosamente la parte flaca y ridícula de la sociedad, es como el espejo constante de la naturaleza, el cual a nadie exime de pararse a contemplar y de reír al ver reflejado en su tersura algún rasgo de la fisonomía social, y aun de la suya propia; ese libro que, a su originalísima concepción y gran cordura, une el atractivo de las bellas formas y una alta influencia moral y literaria; ese libro, por último, orgullo de las letras y familiar de las naciones, ha tenido también su desventura (¡que ella es inherente a la condición de las cosas humanas!); y esta desventura consiste en ver a errados o ilusos escritores contestarle o desfigurar muchas partes de su incontestable mérito, como se verá en la obra que intento publicar, mediante la protección y benevolencia de la culta sociedad venezolana.

Bosquejo sobre el estado político y moral del Perú contiene una ardua reflexión sobre la historia política del Perú durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX. José Manuel Valdez y Palacios hace énfasis en la actividad de Simón Bolívar y en la cadena de pactos y acciones bélicas que marcaron su existencia. La obra se subdivide en tres partes que comprenden: el período anterior a la independencia, que engloba desde la conquista hasta 1820; el período de la Independencia, que va de 1820 a 1824; y el período de la República, que comprende desde la batalla de Ayacucho a la caída de La Mar. La primera sección del Bosquejo está dividida en siete capítulos en los que se aborda sucesivamente tópicos tales como la riqueza natural del territorio, la descripción geográfica del Perú, y un balance de su industria, agricultura y comercio. Valdez concluye con un análisis de la literatura y la religión. En la segunda parte o sección pasa al estudio de la independencia. Es minucioso al retratar el paso de los gobiernos de San Martín al de Bolívar y dedica largas páginas a la descripción y el elogio de las batallas de Junín y Ayacucho. En la tercera y última parte destaca el juicio que realiza de Bolívar, el relato pormenorizado de los acontecimientos del gobierno de La Mar, entre los que destacarán la campaña contra Colombia y la caída de dicho presidente.

Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories - spiralling from real events - that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These crónicas - a genre unique to Latin American writing that blends reportage, narrative non-fiction and novelistic forms - probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand them - and even empathize - despite our wish to disdain them as monsters. As in her hugely acclaimed novels Hurricane Season and Paradais, and once again brilliantly translated by Sophie Hughes, Fernanda Melchor's masterful stories show how the violent and shocking aberrations that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos.

A bridge that interrupts a legacy of pain with the honest sharing of stories.Sana, Sana is a witness to the multiple wounds etched into the landscape of Latinx experience and a testimonial to community efforts to heal them. A multi-genre anthology rooted in the deep desire to not only acknowledge and name the various forms of pain and trauma Latinx people experience regularly, but to do so in the service of imagining new futures and ways of being that prioritize healing and justice not just for Latinx people, but for Queer BIPOC communities and, ultimately, for all people. The book’s vision and understanding of Latinidad is broad and expansive. It centers Black, Indigenous, Queer, Trans, and Feminist Latinidades. By advancing an unapologetically radical antiracist, anticapitalist, feminist, and queer politic Sana, Sana holds creative and defiant space for identifying economic, social, political, emotional, and spiritual strategies to forge individual and collective healing and justice.

Ein Findelkind auf einer Karibikinsel: Ist der Junge der neue, nicht-weiße Messias? Maryse Conde erzählt farbenprächtig und unvergesslich vom Traum einer toleranten, friedlichen Welt.'Eine großartige Geschichtenerzählerin.' Bernardine Evaristo'Heiter und hoffnungsfroh ... ein bestechend schöner Roman voller Weisheit, Großherzigkeit und Versöhnlichkeit.' Leïla Slimani'Maryse Condé ist eine magische Erzählerin.' Jury des Alternativen LiteraturnobelpreisesAn einem Ostersonntag finden Monsieur und Madame Ballandra, ein älteres, kinderloses Ehepaar, ein Neugeborenes in ihrem Gartenschuppen. Pascal, der Säugling, ist überaus hübsch - dunkelhäutig, mit glatten, schwarzen Haaren und Augen, die so graugrün sind wie das Meer, das die Karibikinsel umgibt. Niemand kann sagen, woher der Junge kommt. Aus Europa? Aus Afrika? Aus Asien? Doch nicht nur sein Aussehen weckt die Neugier der Inselbewohner. Hartnäckig hält sich das Gerücht, dieses Findelkind könnte ein ganz besonderes Geschenk an die Menschheit sein: Vielleicht hatte Gott der Vater ja zwei Söhne und den Jüngeren nun zu ihnen geschickt? Ein neuer Messias, der den Auftrag hat, die Welt so zu verändern, dass sie toleranter und friedlicher wird. Kaum erwachsen, zieht Pascal los, auf der Suche nach seiner wahren Bestimmung. 'Das Evangelium der Neuen Welt' ist eine farbenprächtige, unvergessliche Geschichte der 'Grande Dame der französischen Literatur' (BR).

A la extensa y variada bibliografía que ya se acumula sobre la vida y obra de Severo Sarduy, este libro contribuye con una dimensión íntima y conmovedora. Se reúne aquí una parte considerable de la correspondencia enviada por Sarduy a Roberto González Echevarría, quien fuera uno de sus amigos entrañables durante más de veinte años, desde que se conocieran en 1969 y hasta el final de sus días. Los textos reproducidos, cuyos originales se encuentran hoy en la biblioteca de la Universidad de Princeton, son un testimonio de amistad y confianza entre dos imprescindibles intelectuales que compartieron, además de su raíz cubana, varios intereses comunes sobre temas como el barroco, el pensamiento francés, la experiencia del exilio, la tradición cultural de la Isla o la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea. Como resultado de esa comunión, el volumen también se enriquece con una entrevista que trabajaron ambos amigos y con algunas piezas literarias escritas por Sarduy y enviadas entonces a González Echevarría para su valoración exclusiva. A través de un diálogo familiar, muy desenfadado y a la vez perspicaz, estas páginas rescatadas no solo nos revelan detalles valiosos sobre los proyectos creativos de Sarduy, o sobre sus viajes, anhelos, ideas y vínculos con otros intelectuales, sino que además nos hacen partícipes de la estrecha complicidad que labraron el autor de La simulación y uno de sus más sagaces críticos.

A sweeping family saga exploring the secrets we keep and the lines we'll cross for love.Cailin is a naïve, adventure-seeking girl living in a Jamaican Great House. Archie is a teenage boy with a chip on his shoulder. Sharpe is a young man with divided loyalties, living as an outsider in a poor hillside village. Yet, all three long for the same thing-a father's approval. But the man who has the power to give it to them won't...or can't. Behind his back, his property workers call him a tyrant for allegedly murdering a worker in the past, and his family walks on eggshells when he returns home from his drunken visits with his mistress. All while Cailin, Archie, and Sharp's unfulfilled desires spiral into rejection, mistaken affections, and murder.Set in a seaside village during the final year of World War II and Jamaica's first general election, When Trees Fall is the first novel in Dale Mahfood's Wood and Water series. If you enjoy well-drawn, relatable characters and a compelling story you don't want to put down, you'll love this first installment in Dale Mahfood's series.Join Cailin, Archie, and Sharpe for their Caribbean coming-of-age saga.

Set in the semi-arid backlands of northeastern Brazil and spanning one century and three generations, this family saga is a complex psychological portrait of family life, intertwined with Brazil's history from the birth of the republic to the end of the military dictatorship in 1989. Liberty Farm is a chronicle of family and society, history and geography, life and death, loyalty and justice, truth and connivance. It's also a tale of paternal and filial love in all of its forms: strongly felt, unreciprocated, withheld, yearned for, never obtained. "Father, please look at me..." The death of the favorite son creates a love black hole that sucks away the father's entire love. Invisible like the ones in the sky, this love black hole will rule the family for decades, its existence only revealed by the odd behavior of the three older sons. "The family must always stay together..."

Inside My Inner Thoughts is a collection of poems from 1976/2000 from Scubie Albie this is the true inspired words penned in time looking deep into the future of untold mysteries, seeking no understanding from the reader immediate revelation, this is the honesty that consume you today for later emotion and character, feelings and belies that hold on to the understanding that yes you can with both eyes closed... in the moment it is words and sound, vision manifestation of spirits descending deep within your soul...

¿Steve Simpson's remarkable collection of poetry and illustrations is dream-like, playful and wildly inventive. Here is a selection of the beings within:The detective, who carelessly morphs into birds and insects, and cannot choose between brooding and moping, until a stylish grayscale client with retrolescent highlights appears.Proteus, Homo Sapiens Beta, who discovered fire and put it out, who created a rudimentary encyclopedia that he pedaled across Gondwanaland on weekends.Millie, the intrepid librarian, unperturbed by the Dark Solarian or the fearsome kilowasp, who insists that her underlings pay for bibliotactical losses.The adorable Deija Vitro, Martian Princess of Glass, whose fans line the streets waving Windex spray. Wollongong will never be the same, because her armies have razed it to the ground. "No one will miss it," she reassured an infatuated follower.

Set in the semi-arid backlands of northeastern Brazil and spanning one century and three generations, this family saga is a complex psychological portrait of family life, intertwined with Brazil's history from the birth of the republic to the end of the military dictatorship in 1989.Liberty Farm is a chronicle of family and society, history and geography, life and death, loyalty and justice, truth and connivance. It's also a tale of paternal and filial love in all of its forms: strongly felt, unreciprocated, withheld, yearned for, never obtained. "Father, please look at me..."The death of the favorite son creates a love black hole that sucks away the father's entire love. Invisible like the ones in the sky, this love black hole will rule the family for decades, its existence only revealed by the odd behavior of the three older sons. "The family must always stay together..."